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A common belief is that, among our sexual dispositions, sexual orientations are important and deep features of who someone is. This distinguishes them from other sexual dispositions—"mere" preferences—that are thought to be trivial in comparison. Is there a way to adequately account for this distinction? What is a plausible explanation for the belief that sexual orientation is a deep and important feature of who one is? This paper defends one necessary condition for a sexual disposition to be an orientation, the well-being condition: if a sexual disposition is an orientation, then the inability to act on it lowers one's well-being by rendering one's life sexually deprived. The paper argues that the well-being condition better explains than other criteria the belief that orientations are important features of who one is. The paper concludes by tracing the implications of this view to the common understanding of sexual orientation.

Preliminary Material -- NATURALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY: BIOLOGY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND THE NATURE/CULTURE DISTINCTION /Patrick D. Hopkins -- SEEING SEXUAL ORIENTATION THROUGH THE LENS OF GENDER /Edward Stein -- WHAT MUST A BISEXUAL DO? /Carol V.A. Quinn -- FIRST GAYS, THEN POLYGAMISTS? /John Corvino -- AUTONOMY, GAY RIGHTS, AND HUMAN SELF-FULFILLMENT: AN ARGUMENT FOR MODIFIED LIBERALISM /Vincent J. Samar -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHER AS "PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL" /Raja Halwani -- MORAL EXPERTISE? CONSTITUTIONAL NARRATIVES AND PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT /Martha C. Nussbaum -- DOES THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL HAVE INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY? /Linda Martín Alcoff -- MINORITIES AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARKETPLACE /Jorge J. E. Gracia -- THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES /DAVID L. HULL -- RESPONDING TO HATE CRIMES /Claudia Card -- LGBT PHILOSOPHY AND UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING /Mark Chekola -- THE USE AND MISUSE OF PRIVACY IN THE OUTING DEBATE /Mark Chekola -- PROMISCUITY AND SEXUAL TEMPERANCE /Raja Halwani -- THE COALESCENCE OF DICHOTOMY IN DRAG AESTHETICS /Bassam Romaya -- "THE WAR ON TERROR" AND THE QUEER BODY: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AIDS, AND SHAPING UNITED STATES PUBLIC OPINION /Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo -- MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND THE PLACE OF THE BODY /George Wright -- QUEER PORTRAITURE AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION /Kayley Vernallis -- GAY IDENTITY: WHAT DO WE WANT? /Andy Wible -- IS IT A CHOICE? SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS INTERPRETATION /William S. Wilkerson -- MORE THAN JUST ACCESS TO OUR PARTNERS: A SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACH TO HETEROSEXISM AND HOMOPHOBIA IN HEALTH CARE /Allison B. Wolf -- CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF RICHARD D. MOHR: A PERSONAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVE /Claudia Card -- HONORING RICHARD D. MOHR /John Corvino -- IN HONOR OF RICHARD D. MOHR /Raja Halwani -- A RESPONSE TO MY CRITICS: REFLECTIONS ON THE SLGP'S SESSION "SPECIAL RECOGNITION: DISTINGUISHED LGBT PHILOSOPHER HONOREE, RICHARD D. MOHR" /Richard D. Mohr -- A RESPONSE TO RICHARD D. MOHR /Raja Halwani -- LIVES AND LOVES THAT DARED NOT SPEAK THEIR NAMES: WELL-BEING AND LGBT PERSONS /Mark Chekola -- BEYOND TRAGEDY TO WHAT? /Claudia Card -- MARK CHEKOLA'S HAPPINESS /Raja Halwani -- SINGULARITY AND COMMUNITY: AN APPRECIATION OF MARK CHEKOLA /Anita Silvers -- HONORING MARK CHEKOLA /Carol V.A. Quinn -- WALKING IN OUR HEELS? MEDIA, IDENTITY, AND PEDAGOGY /Christopher La Barbera -- DISCIPLINING THE PUBLIC: ENEMY COMBATANTS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND A NEW KIND OF CONTAINMENT /Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo -- RACISM AND THE POLITICAL ROMANCE OF THE BROWNING OF AMERICA /Ronald R. Sundstrom -- THE SPECIAL OBLIGATION OF GAY MEN TO FIGHT HIV AT HOME AND ABROAD /Andy Wible -- THE BISEXUAL WOMAN AS AN INAUTHENTIC LESBIAN: FROM BEAUVOIR TO THE L WORD /James A. Martell -- WHY COMING OUT IS RATIONAL /Gary Jaeger -- CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS ON HOMOEROTIC DESIRE: THE INTELLECTUAL LEGACY OF AUGUSTINIAN AND PELAGIAN THEORIES OF HUMAN NATURE /Richard Nunan -- HETERONORMATIVITY AND (SARTRE ON) ANTI-SEMITISM /Christine Pierce -- MILL, DIGNITY, AND HOMOSEXUALITY /Carol V.A. Quinn -- KANT, DIGNITY, AND THE GAY BATHHOUSE /James A. Martell -- ON MY RELUCTANCE TO DEFEND A QUEER POINT OF VIEW /Carol V.A. Quinn -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) -- INDEX -- VIBS.